What’s New This Week?

Google+ Begins Offering Badges for Google+ Pages: “The Google+ badge helps you grow your audience on Google+ and show more recommendations in Google search by letting people add you to their circles and +1 your page, all without leaving your site.” At the moment, Google is only offering these badges through the Google+ platform preview group which is easy to join. NOTE: Badges are only shows to others who are registered for the preview group.

Google+ badges "make it easy for your audience to subscribe to your posts and endorse and share your site."

LinkedIn Brings Analytics To Groups: You can now check out a variety of statistics on all LinkedIn Groups: demographics, growth, activity. The news Group Statistics dashboard is on the right of all Group profiles. Use these stats to identify the best groups for you.

Check out the demographics for our private LinkedIn group for participants of the upcoming Small Business Success Summit.

LinkedIn Updates Events Feature: LinkedIn Events now makes it easier to find the right events to attend and gives you an “easy way to find and connect with the right folks attending those events.”

LinkedIn Events includes a feature called “Attendees you may want to meet.”

It’s quick and easy to install apps and add them as streams to your dash.

Buffer Adds Facebook Integration: Buffer has upgraded its easy-to-use dashboard. “You can now post the same update to both Facebook and Twitter, or have them posted to either network only.”

Now Buffer users can schedule updates on both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ and LinkedIn are coming soon.

Groupon Introduces Deal Types and Places: When you log on to Groupon.com, you now have a Personalization Bar to define your favorite Deal Types and Deal Places. This makes it easy to find the deals you want.

Cindy King is the director of editorial for Social Media Examiner. She spent 25 years abroad in international business development and then built her own international business from scratch by using social business networking. Other posts byCindy King »

http://davelucasmobile.wordpress.com/ DaveLucasNotes

Printing all this out. I’ve noticed I can focus better on articles like this when I have hard copy. Anybody else experience this?

Cindy I think I somehow accidentally made two seperate G+ pages. any idea of how to combine them without deleting them?

BLOG ON! PS- I’m pleasantly surprised to see you feature a “trackback URL” – most of the A-list bloggers have dropped the feature!

http://cindyking.biz/ Cindy King

Thanks for your comments Dave! You know I used to like having hard copies too and then I traveled a fair bit last year which made me rely more on digital. And I’m going to try to stay that way as much as possible. What’s essential for me now is to have a good bookmarking/follow up process to take actions on the important stuff I read.

I haven’t heard of anything yet on merging 2 G+ pages. If I do I’ll circle back hear to let you know.

http://www.i95dev.com/ecommerce-magento Henry Louis

Hi Cindy! I am regularly following your posts. You are providing very valuable information through these posts.Thanks for sharing. Keep updating the posts.

http://www.extremejohn.com/ Extreme John

Google+ Business Page has been trying to be at par with Facebook Fanpage. Social media is becoming a powerful tool to promote businesses around the globe. I believe in that presentation shown above that big social media companies will become bigger and bigger while small social media companies will become smaller and smaller. Look what Google’s done to social media arena.

http://CMC-Insurance.info/ C. Michael Croston

I know that Google is working on some migration tools, but specifics about how they will work and what they apply to are as secret as business pages were up till their release.

http://edgy.co Tara Husband

Hi Cindy. Such a great article and I love the snapshots. I saw this use of google+ biz pages being used for negativity and I turned it into something that is fun and positive.

“It is the edgy existence within me that compels me to go further.” If this sounds like you, follow these instructions exactly:

1) Copy and paste this into a comment on google+ “@?109840991306502508525″ 2) Remove the ? and quotation marks. 3) Press “Post Comment” 4) Now watch what happens.

I’m curious all the ways the pages are going to start being used! Should be fun to see. -Tara Husband, Edgy Social Media

And why do you want us to send you a comment? That is all that will happen, right?

Nouf

Hi Cindy , thank for provide us this information .In fact it’s very useful for me.

http://treasurycafe.blogspot.com/ david k waltz

I happened to run across the LinkedIn feature for group analytics, it was perfect because I was looking for a group comprising local folks for a local event I had a question about. Thanks for the insights!

http://twitter.com/buzzquotient buzzquotient

Interesting article! Right now the focus to measure social media success is the number of fans and followers one has. But overtime, like you said with maturity, people will realize that the real ROI lies with the quality of fans and followers and what tangible returns we gain from them.

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